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SUPER-SPEED CELLULAR * MEMORY-CARD MAGIC * DOUBLE THE PHONE * THE LIVELIEST APP * TOP SLR * TABLET BOOST * CASH KILLER * ROUNDED ROBOT, SMART BLOCKS * SAVABLE SCRAWL [...]

Sony and Apple make computers they claim will bring order to the chaotic and confusing digital desktop. We put the two systems to a head-to-head test. The idea is simple: [...]

Wireless technology is discussed with emphasis on its many and varied uses and benefits. This type of technology allows people to move around, but still be connected as in a mobile telephone, but it also has the potential to link people to the Internet.

New advancements in technology set to be marketed by the year 2000 are profiled. Among these new products are digital television, lighter laptop computers, more advanced Internet search engines, and fingerprint scanning devices.

Whether it's on the Web, in your brochures and other mailings, or in a multimedia presentation, the easiest way to incorporate photographic images is with a digital camera. One key […]

DIGITAL CAMERAS ARE INCONTROVERTIBLY COOL. You point the device at the subject, click the shutter, connect the camera to your computer's serial port, download the image, and view it onscreen […]

I like to think of myself as a technologically hip kind of guy. I know my Macs from my Compaqs, my cache from my trash, and I installed a multimedia […]

Right now, if industry prognostications aren't entirely amiss, multimedia computers are flying off store shelves and landing in homes across the country. These machines come equipped with CD-ROM drives and […]

If you're shopping for a high-powered personal computer, your timing couldn't be better. Computers based on Intel's flagship Pentium processor, fast and formidable 486DX4s, and the radically new PowerPC chip […]

DOZENS OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING PROGRAMS CROWD the market, but at the top of the page-layout chain you'll find only two: Aldus PageMaker and QuarkXPress. Ventura Publisher (recently acquired by Corel […]

STEALTH SOUND * GOODBYE, SPLIT-SCREEN * SIMPLER 3-D * TRICKY TABLETOP * CELLPHONE BOOM BOX * EXTREME SLO-MO GRAND AWARD WINNER 2011 SONY HMZ-T1 PERSONAL 3-D VIEWER 3-D IN (AND [...]

Like many families during the holiday season, the Morgenstems deck the keyboard with tinsel, balance a menorah on the top of the monitor, and look for some cheerful diversions to […]

Artwork does more than illustrate-it communicates. And not just in desktop-published documents. A lively, well-placed piece of art draws the eye to any document, from the obvious--fliers, brochures, and newsletters--to […]

Deborah Evans Crawford started her mail-order catalog based on a need she experienced in her day-to-day life. She had worked both in golf-maintenance for many years and on her small […]

For the past month my 16-year-old son, Jason, and I have battled space aliens, flown against ferocious enemy fighter pilots, evaded cold-blooded Nazi killers, and lost more than a few […]

A veteran of many computer-weary hours, his face bathed in the glow of a word-processing screen, stops to share his thoughts with you. 'When I started out with computers,' he […]

The term contact management rings of business-school jargon, but it boils down to a simple idea: keeping track of information about the people with whom you do business. That includes […]

Scanners are cool. I know it's a non-technical, retro word, but there is something cool about the ability to take an image from a piece of paper, suck it into […]

I used to turn up my nose at so-called low-end or midrange desktop-publishing (DTP) programs. These programs might be fine for the high school French-club newsletter, but for business communication? […]

Windows 3.0: What's in It For You? How Microsoft's User Interface Makes Computing Easier When somebody sits down to write the history of hype, Microsoft Windows 3.0 will surely merit […]

Throughout most of the year we act as editors--choosing and reviewing products that we think will appeal to a majority of the magazine's readers. This month, however, we speak as […]

Is Your Word-Processing Software Well Suited for Your Business Tasks? This Guide Will Help You Find the Right Tool for the Write Job. My son recently gave me a T-shirt […]

Rating: * * * * AT A GLANCE: The most capable word processor around--known for feature-richness and versatility. DOCUMENTATION: Extensive, yet learning curve a problem, since on-line tutorial is good […]

Purchasing a scanner is like giving your computer eyes. Scanner eyes capture pictures from the physical world, pulling them into the computer's digital word where desktop publishers can put them […]

Reviews of Three Full-Page Portrait Display Systems Full-page monitors: Chances are you've seen them - or read articles about them. If you're into desktop publishing, you may already own (or […]

The new wave of digital cameras are evaluated based on storage and image capacity, weight, power, zoom capabilities, and price. The Nikon Coolpix 900 received the highest rating with the Agfa ePhoto 1680 close behind.

Sub-$1,000 PC sales grew to more than 40% of total PC retail sales, causing a competitive features war among manufacturers. The originally low end, striped-down models redesigned offer to increased memory capacity, speed, and expansion capabilities.

Advice on choosing between digital and analog cellular technology is presented. Ten specific models of cellular telephones are also evaluated. A discussion of costs and recommendations on regional carriers are outlined.

Whether Upgrading Your System or Starting from Scratch, Hero's How to Get Started in DTP This time out we'll grapple with one of the most basic questions asked by would-be […]

Make Your Computer Faster, Safer, Easier to Run Lose a file, lose an hour. Or a day. Or a client. And unfortunately, it isn't difficult to lose a file. Your […]

Never mind for the moment whether it's fair or accurate or philosophically repugnant to pigeon-hole people. Let me describe my preconception of a typical Macintosh user. An individual, used to […]

Byline: Steve Morgenstern New graphics software makes smoke, explosions and shrapnel look so lifelike, it almost hurts THE CHALLENGE: Fully harness the massive processing power in today's graphics cards to [...]

Byline: Steve Morgenstern New TVs finally deliver games and movies that leap off the screen and into your living room I RECENTLY PUT ON electric shades, sat in front of [...]

Byline: Steve Morgenstern Stop garbled calls. Install your own personal cellphone tower CURE SPOTTY mobile-phone coverage by bringing the network to you. Samsung's UbiCell acts like a miniature cell tower, [...]

Byline: Steve Morgenstern The second generation of HD DVD and Blu-ray players offers gorgeous video--and a potential way out of the format war ONE GLANCE at the images from high-definition [...]

Byline: Steve Morgenstern New Internet video services provide more options for demanding couch potatoes THE TREND Video delivered directly to your TV screen over high-speed Internet through a dedicated set-top [...]

Byline: Steve Morgenstern Will Wright tackles life, the universe and everything in Spore ALTHOUGH GAMING is a multibillion-dollar business rivaling the movie industry, the creative talents behind it slave away [...]